Timothy Snyder e Nora Krug, “On Tyranny”. Un prontuario in difesa della democrazia

From the encounter between Nora Krug’s graphic talent and boundless creativity and Timothy Snyder’s incisive, economical prose comes the illustrated edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century—a powerful call to defend democracy and protect the institutions that sustain it. It is also a stark reminder of the importance of keeping memory alive: not only to remember what has been, but to use that memory as a lens through which to interpret the present. Krug reimagines Snyder’s twenty lessons, translating them into a visual language made of illustrations, photographs, and fragments from a vanished world. Her approach is deliberately emotional—both for herself and the reader—seeking to facilitate, but also to complicate, the act of reading through a web of free associations. The hope, expressed in the closing pages of the book, is that new generations will learn to resist the “traps of inevitability and eternity” and, in doing so, “may become a historical generation.”